The Protean Chamber

'The Protean Chamber' is the first in a trilogy of story's set within a future world in which the Earth has become a frozen wasteland.
It is populated by a remnant humanity of interbred European and Eskimo humanoids struggling to survive against the warring might of off world political power-players. Two factions have flourished within the safety of far flung colonies, avoiding the mutating effects of a WMD effected Earth.
Stumbling into this milieu are the innocent Elixir and Orchid, the products of a Secret U.N project developed just prior to the annihilating war that has so effectively destroyed the Earth's surface. Both are an exotic mix of humanoid and reptilian genetic conception; designed to thrive deep below the Earth's oceanic surface and excel within an aquatic environment. Together Eli and Orchid struggle to survive and understand their place in a world they know as familiar and strangely foreign...